Henry Scott Holland — a remark

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“Whatever we were to each other, that we are still. Call me by the old familiar name.”

Encouraging familiar remembrance instead of ceremonious grief · Sermon, Death the King of Terrors

About Henry Scott Holland

Henry Scott Holland

27 January 1847–17 March 1918

Henry Scott Holland was born on 27 January 1847 at Ledbury, Herefordshire, into a world of Anglican privilege, classical education, and public duty. He died on 17 March 1918 in Oxford, at the close of a life spent attempting to make Christianity answerable to the moral crises of modern society. He was not, in the…

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